Law and Religious Diversity in Education: The Right to Difference

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Acknowledgments
Preface
1 The method: legal pluralism and comparative constitutional law: complementary methodology in the protection of religious difference
	1 Legal hybridity and legal pluralism: state law as one way of imagining the real
	2 The relationship of international and comparative law with legal pluralism
		a The value of difference in comparative law and human rights
		b The protection of religious difference in times of legal plurality
2 The concepts: revisiting religious diversity within multicultural classrooms: religious freedom, education and equality
	1 Introduction: human rights and normative conflict
	2 The right to freedom of religion in education: religion as a secular blasphemy?
	3 Secularization, secularism and the right to religious freedom
	4 Educational autonomy, religious freedom and equality
	5 The neutrality of education and the principle of equality
3 The standards: interpreting the content of rights: the legal interaction of religious freedom, education and non-discrimination
	1 Introduction: the relevance of religion in education
	2 The nature of the right to education
	3 The content of the right to education in its religious/cultural dimension
	4 The right to religious freedom within education: a path towards co-existence?
	5 The right to equality and non-discrimination in the context of religious diversity in public education
4 Plural public education in Israel: for equal or different students?
	1 Legal pluralism in Israel: the context
	2 The Normative justification of the close entanglement between religion and the State in education
	3 The design of educational religious pluralism: general features
	4 Constitutional pluralism and religious diversity
		a The ambiguous principle of equality
		b The role of the State in Israel in the provision of religious services
	5 Educational diversification according to religious belonging
		a Arab sector education: patterns of discrimination against Israeli Palestinian Arab learners
		b Ultra-Orthodox education
	6 Educational pluralism, autonomy and accommodation of religious identity in Israeli state-sponsored schools
	7 Concluding remarks: education and democratic governance
5 Avoiding religion? The question of religious identity conflicts in education in South Africa
	1 Introduction: legal pluralism in South Africa
	2 Equality and difference: constitutional contours and interpretation
	3 The right to religious freedom
		a Religion and the right to education in South Africa: accommodating difference in schools?
		b Religion with(out) culture
	4 The right to education
	5 The special case of independent schools in South Africa
	6 The South African approach to religious diversity in education
		a A historical account: the legacies of apartheid
		b Religion in education in contemporary South Africa
		c Desegregation: a determining framing factor
	7 Effects of religious diversity policy in education: governance implications
6 From tradition to modernity and back: religious diversity in English schools as a test-case for multicultural societies
	1 Introduction: multiculturalism, legal pluralism and conflict
	2 Education and faith in curricular development in the UK
		a Religion in education: the legal framework
		b Types of schools
	3 Religion and equality
	4 The special case of ‘faith schools’ in Britain
	5 The question of citizenship education in a post-multicultural setting
	6 Religious literacy and religious education policy outcomes
		a The place of religious education in the national curriculum
		b Teachers’ Agency in delivering religious diversity in education
		c Religious freedom as manifestation: religious symbols and school uniforms
		d ‘Faith schools’ as a test-ground of religious diversity education
	7 Concluding remarks: the ambiguous role of religious belief in English public education
7 Negotiating religious identity in public classrooms
	1 Introduction: the efficiency of legal pluralism as a frame in religiously diverse education: power, agency and the law
	2 Religious diversity as a conflict regulating factor: testing the limits of the social magic of law
		a Religious education as a public good
		b (In)equality in and through education
	3 The management of religious disputes within education in plural societies: methods, conditions and challenges
		a The role of context in promoting religious diversity in education
		b Religious pluralism and the new role of the State
		c The challenges of education systems in protecting religious difference
8 Legal empowerment through religious diversity in schools
	1 Religion in education: a shifting agenda
		a Education as development: globalizing and transnational dimensions
		b ‘Faith schools’: religious communities’ agency in action
	2 Religious diversity in education within an empowerment frame
		a Religious identity-building as empowerment
		b Religious education and citizenship – plurality as opportunity
	3 Concluding remarks
References
European Court of Human Rights cases
Domestic case law
International and European legal texts
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